Pictou West

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Pictou West

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Karla MacFarlane
Progressive Conservative

District created

1949

Last contested

Demographics

Population (2011)

13,922

10,886

Area (km²)

1,171.00

Pop. density (per km²)

11.9

Census divisions

Pictou West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2013 has been Karla MacFarlane of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia (PC).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013-Present		Karla MacFarlane	Progressive Conservative
61st	2009–2013		Charlie Parker	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006
58th	1999-2003		Muriel Baillie	Progressive Conservative
57th	1998-1999		Charlie Parker	New Democratic
56th	1993-1998		Donald P. McInnes	Progressive Conservative
55th	1988-1993
54th	1984-1988
53rd	1981-1984
52nd	1978-1981
51st	1974-1978		Dan Reid	Liberal
50th	1970-1974		Harvey Veniot	Progressive Conservative
49th	1967-1970
48th	1963-1967
47th	1960-1963
46th	1956-1960
45th	1953-1956		Stewart W. Proudfoot	Liberal
44th	1949-1953		Stewart W. Proudfoot	Liberal

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Charlie Parker	4226	57.63
	Liberal	Paul Landry	1471	20.06
	Progressive Conservative	Leonard Fraser	1466	19.99
	Green	Chelsea Richardson	170	2.32	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Charlie Parker	4173	54.89
	Progressive Conservative	Ron Baillie	2584	33.99
	Liberal	Sandy Mackay	698	9.18
	Green	Douglas Earl Corbett	147	1.93	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Charlie Parker	3410	44.05
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Veniot	2530	32.68
	Liberal	Ed MacMaster	1639	21.17
	Independent	Doug Corbett	163	2.11

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Muriel Ballie	3102
	New Democratic Party	Charlie Parker	2955
	Liberal	Paul Landry	2109
	Nova Scotia Party	D. Ed Berringer	114

External links

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Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts

Current

Historic

to 2013:	Argyle Cape Breton North Cape Breton Nova Cape Breton South Cape Breton West Clare Cole Harbour Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Digby-Annapolis Guysborough-Sheet Harbour Halifax Clayton Park Halifax Fairview Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Preston Queens Richmond Shelburne Truro-Bible Hill

to 2003:	Bedford-Fall River Cape Breton East Cape Breton The Lakes Dartmouth South Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Halifax Bedford Basin Sackville-Beaver Bank Victoria

to 1993:	Annapolis East Annapolis West Colchester South Cumberland Centre Cumberland East Cumberland West Digby Guysborough Halifax Cornwallis Halifax Eastern Shore Halifax St. Margarets Inverness North Inverness South Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg East Sackville

to 1978:	Colchester Halifax Cobequid

to 1967:	Halifax Centre Halifax County Dartmouth Halifax East Halifax North Halifax Northwest Halifax South Halifax West

to 1956:	Kings

to 1949:	Cumberland Hants Pictou

to 1933:	Halifax Richmond and Cape Breton West

to 1925:	Cape Breton

See also: 2013 election
List of elections
Politics of Nova Scotia

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